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单词 mined
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minedadj.

Brit. /mʌɪnd/, U.S. /maɪnd/
Forms: see mine v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mine v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < mine v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Of a region: that has been excavated. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [adjective] > dug or excavated
wroughtOE
underdolven1382
holkedc1420
cast1487
mineda1500
pioneda1616
uneartheda1625
delved1673
disentombed1871
dugout1886
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 87 It ys lyk in manere to stoones of mynyd hilles, and of planetz, and of þinges hauynge soule.
2. Of a building, area of ground, etc.: rendered hazardous or unstable by the digging or laying of mines (see mine n. 5). Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [adjective] > mined
mined1870
1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. i. 54 'Tis o'er mined ground we move for ever here, And many enemies surround our way.
1845 Littell's Living Age 5 Apr. 17/1 The government itself, knowing that all the ground beneath it is mined, should be always on the watch for an explosion.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip I. vii. 135 Old Parr Street is mined, sir,—mined! And some morning we shall be blown into blazes.
1870 Instr. Mil. Engin. I. 76 The following description of a mined magazine, is suitable for a site where [etc.].
1901 F. Norris Octopus i. i. 18 I ran my train according to schedule, with a gun in each hand, never knowing when I was going over a mined culvert.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 11/2 His men fought their way through a mined German road block.
1998 Northern Echo (Electronic ed.) 6 Apr. She has been arrested, bombed and made to travel across a mined bridge.
3. Produced from mines or by mining.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > mined
eviscerate1830
mined1903
1903 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 3/3 The value of her mined wealth has mounted up from 314,000,000 marks in 1871 to 1,263,000,000 marks in 1900.
1947 Times 23 June 2/7 The shortage of mined coal, together with the value of montan wax, has given added value to lignite.
1970 H. Braun Parish Churches viii. 110 Medieval iron was smelted with charcoal instead of mined coal.
1991 A. M. Mannion Global Environmental Change 297 Extracting minerals from ores or from mined materials.
4. Ecology. Of a leaf: affected or damaged by tunnelling insects or larvae.
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1931 Ecol. Monogr. 1 474 The turkey oak leaves during the summer and fall become badly mined by a lepidopterous leaf miner.
1973 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 42 422 (caption) Estimates of mean numbers of insects per generation per 100 mined leaves.
1995 Ecology 76 1239/1 We found no density effect on the pupal mass of Stilbosis quadricutatella leafminers inhabiting singly, doubly, and triply mined leaves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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